Oct. 1 marks the 68th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China. Seymour Topping – who covered the fall of Nanking, ending Nationalist rule, for the Associated Press – looks back on a time with parallels to our own.

Yorktown Heights-based Guiding Eyes for the Blind – which breeds, raises, trains and places guide dogs with people who are blind, visually impaired or autistic, is using Watson on IBM Cloud to select those pups best-suited to the job.

Bob Pargament, a certified hypnotist and founder of the Westchester Hypnosis & Relaxation Center in Harrison, is just back from a national convention where he lectured on technological advances in his field.